Webhose

14 statements across 1 episodes · 4 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jul 31, 2018 by Ron Geva · across every show →

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Jul 31, 2018
Insight
Geva: API data customers upgrade organically without sales pressure
“Because we are providing an API, the more clients they have, the more API calls they will need. So they basically are working for us in a sense, the more successful they are, the more API calls they will need. They will upgrade organically their plans. I don't…”
Ron Geva Jul 31, 2018 ▶ 14:30 1102 WebHose CEO on understanding unstructured data, passes $2.3m in ARR
Jul 31, 2018 bullish
Opinion
Geva: Webhose is doing to web data what Amazon did to hosting
“We basically, we see us doing to date web data or data provisioning what Amazon to do, did to server hosting.”
Ron Geva Jul 31, 2018 ▶ 2:44 1102 WebHose CEO on understanding unstructured data, passes $2.3m in ARR
Jul 31, 2018
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Geva: Webhose has around 300 to 350 paying customers
“Yeah, about 303 150 paying customers.”
Ron Geva Jul 31, 2018 ▶ 8:09 1102 WebHose CEO on understanding unstructured data, passes $2.3m in ARR
Jul 31, 2018 neutral
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Geva: Webhose has tens of thousands of mostly freemium users
“We have tens of thousands of users. Not all of them are paying. A lot of them are freemium”
Ron Geva Jul 31, 2018 ▶ 3:44 1102 WebHose CEO on understanding unstructured data, passes $2.3m in ARR
Jul 31, 2018 negative
Assertion Supported
Geva: Google is a 'closed garden' that blocks machine access to search
“Google is a closed garden in that sense. They are excellent for it, Humans, but for machines that want to tap into their index, there's no way.”
Ron Geva Jul 31, 2018 ▶ 7:04 1102 WebHose CEO on understanding unstructured data, passes $2.3m in ARR
Jul 31, 2018
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Geva: Enterprise clients account for about 70% of Webhose revenue
“A few dozens of enterprises that are about 30, about 70% of the income are enterprise.”
Ron Geva Jul 31, 2018 ▶ 7:58 1102 WebHose CEO on understanding unstructured data, passes $2.3m in ARR
Jul 31, 2018 neutral
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Geva: Webhose operates with a team of about 20
“We're about 20.”
Ron Geva Jul 31, 2018 ▶ 4:03 1102 WebHose CEO on understanding unstructured data, passes $2.3m in ARR
Jul 31, 2018
Disclosure
Geva: Webhose spends $4,000 per month on direct paid advertising
“4000 dollars, not a lot.”
Ron Geva Jul 31, 2018 ▶ 10:19 1102 WebHose CEO on understanding unstructured data, passes $2.3m in ARR
Jul 31, 2018
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Geva: Webhose reaches roughly $260,000 in MRR
“MRR about 260,000 dollars.”
Ron Geva Jul 31, 2018 ▶ 9:14 1102 WebHose CEO on understanding unstructured data, passes $2.3m in ARR
Jul 31, 2018 positive
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Geva: Webhose has never lost an enterprise client except to bankruptcy
“On the enterprise Part. So the higher the amount they pay, we see near zero churn. We have clients, I told you, we started back in oh seven with providing this data. So we have clients going back in oh seven. We never lost an enterprise client unless he went o…”
Ron Geva Jul 31, 2018 ▶ 11:39 1102 WebHose CEO on understanding unstructured data, passes $2.3m in ARR
Jul 31, 2018 neutral
Disclosure
Geva: Webhose puts no effort into upselling existing clients
“We don't put any effort on upselling. Currently, at least we will in the future, but currently I want more of Expand my market reach and not necessarily you know, optimizing our current clients.”
Ron Geva Jul 31, 2018 ▶ 13:17 1102 WebHose CEO on understanding unstructured data, passes $2.3m in ARR
Jul 31, 2018 bullish
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Geva: Webhose expects around 70% revenue growth in 2018
“Now we expect to grow about 70%.”
Ron Geva Jul 31, 2018 ▶ 8:25 1102 WebHose CEO on understanding unstructured data, passes $2.3m in ARR
Jul 31, 2018 positive
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Geva: Webhose's annual net revenue churn is probably under 5%
“Oh, less than five percent, probably.”
Ron Geva Jul 31, 2018 ▶ 12:43 1102 WebHose CEO on understanding unstructured data, passes $2.3m in ARR
Jul 31, 2018 neutral
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Geva: Webhose averages $1,000 to $3,000 monthly revenue per customer
“So, the average would be between 1000 to three, but we have enterprises that pay under 10th of thousands per month, and we have, and it really, it doesn't really depend on the company.”
Ron Geva Jul 31, 2018 ▶ 3:18 1102 WebHose CEO on understanding unstructured data, passes $2.3m in ARR
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